No Wifi on Hp Bw088ax with mint 18.3 clean install

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No Wifi on Hp Bw088ax with mint 18.3 clean install

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I am here a newbie, installed linux mint and replaced windows 10 from my laptop hp 15 bwo88ax amd a9 , now the issue is i can connect internet through cable but not with Wifi, iwconfig says no wireless extension. rfkill list all says only about bluetooth only, network controller is showing unclaimed, realtek , with no model number. please help me with this. it is a clean install
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Re: No Wifi on Hp Bw088ax with mint 18.3 clean install

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Post results from terminal for

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lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net; uname -r
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Re: No Wifi on Hp Bw088ax with mint 18.3 clean install

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Hi, Im in the same situation as rkgui (with HP notebook 17-bs510ng)

terminal says:

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02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 15)
	DeviceName: Hanksville Gbe Lan Connection
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [103c:833d]
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:d723]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8319]
4.13.0-32-generic
help is appreciated, thanks
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Re: No Wifi on Hp Bw088ax with mint 18.3 clean install

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Minusgrad wrote:Hi, Im in the same situation as rkgui (with HP notebook 17-bs510ng)

terminal says:

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02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 15)
	DeviceName: Hanksville Gbe Lan Connection
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [103c:833d]
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:d723]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8319]
4.13.0-32-generic
help is appreciated, thanks
For that with the 4.13 kernel, in terminal do

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sudo apt-get install git dkms
git clone https://github.com/jeremyb31/rtl8723de.git
sudo dkms add ./rtl8723de
sudo dkms install rtl8723de/5.1.1.8_21285.20171026_COEX20170111-1414
Reboot
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Re: No Wifi on Hp Bw088ax with mint 18.3 clean install

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It worked, thank you JeremyB!
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Re: No Wifi on Hp Bw088ax with mint 18.3 clean install

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Worked for me as well on my new HP Laptop 17-ak0xx.

Thanks Jeremy. Could you please explain what those commands did. I'm still trying to learn!

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Re: No Wifi on Hp Bw088ax with mint 18.3 clean install

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Basically we just copied source code from github and used dkms to compile and install it. When you use dkms it will normally recompile the source code when you install a newer kernel as long as you stay within the same kernel series, like if you have 4.4.0-52 and update to 4.4.0-112 will usually work but I would expect it to fail if you went from 4.4.0-52 to 4.13.0-32 but it all depends on the source code and what kernel changes were made
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Re: No Wifi on Hp Bw088ax with mint 18.3 clean install

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Thanks, I upgraded to 10.13.0 before following your instructions.

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Re: No Wifi on Hp Bw088ax with mint 18.3 clean install

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Hi JeremyB,

i just updated to 4.15.0-38 and now I have the same issue again. Can you help again?
Is the wifi driver overwritten with every kernel update?

your repository rtl8723de on github apparently doesnt work with kernel 4.15:

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sudo dkms install rtl8723de/5.1.1.8_21285.20171026_COEX20170111-1414

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/rtl8723de/5.1.1.8_21285.20171026_COEX20170111-1414/source ->
                 /usr/src/rtl8723de-5.1.1.8_21285.20171026_COEX20170111-1414

DKMS: add completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area....
'make' all KVER=4.15.0-38-generic....(bad exit status: 2)
ERROR (dkms apport): binary package for rtl8723de: 5.1.1.8_21285.20171026_COEX20170111-1414 not found
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.15.0-38-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/rtl8723de/5.1.1.8_21285.20171026_COEX20170111-1414/build/make.log for more information.
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Re: No Wifi on Hp Bw088ax with mint 18.3 clean install

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For the 4.15 kernels use

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sudo apt-get install dkms git build-essential
git clone -b extended https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.git
sudo dkms add ./rtlwifi_new
sudo dkms install rtlwifi-new/0.6
sudo cp -r rtlwifi_new/firmware/rtlwifi/ /lib/firmware/rtlwifi
echo "options rtl8723de ant_sel=2" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723de.conf
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